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PONDICHERRY EAGLE. 
Generic Character. 
Bill hooked ; with a cere or naked Ikin at the bafe. 
Head thickly befet with feathers. 
Tongue generally bifid. 
Specific Character, &c< 
Chefnut-coloured Eagle, with white head neck 
and bread:, blue cere, and yellow feet. 
PONDICHERRY EAGLE. 
Bath. syn. 1. p. 41. 
AIGLE DE PONDICHERRY. 
Buf. ois. 1 . p. 136. 
PI. enl. 416 . 
This elegant fpecies is nearly equal in fize to a 
kite. It is a native of many parts of the Eab In¬ 
dies, and is confidered as a facred bird. It appears 
to vary a little in point of plumage; the figure gi¬ 
ven in the Planches Enluminees reprefenting it as 
dafhed down the bread and abdomen with fmall 
longitudinal breaks of brown; of which, in the 
fpecimen preferved in the Britilh Mufeum, from 
which the prefent figure was drawn, there is not 
the flighted appearance. 
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